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Kassie Rose
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NPR book critic for WOSU Public Media, book blogger at thelongestchapter.com, and mom to cardigan corgis Fitzgerald and Daisy Fay.
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I wish someone would translate the book of correspondence between H.G. Adler and Franz Baermann Steiner that Carol Tully edited. So I could read it. Ever since the TLS review by Jeremy Adler, been looking, hoping. #translation #germanbooks
February 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Some novels are so extraordinary, it’s hard to do them justice. Published by @biblioasis.bsky.social

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The redemptive power of friendship
A review of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel "Heaven and Hell" translated by Philip Roughton.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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@tedgioia.bsky.social, who wrote the Introduction to the @bhousepress.bsky.social edition of Solitary Confinement, called it "one of the great masterpieces of contemplative literature."

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How Christopher Burney Discovered Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell
The captured British spy later declared that his 526 days in isolation were "an exercise in liberty"
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February 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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(Fan of this series.)
neglectedbooks.com Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Feb 17
Stuck for an indefinite time with a bleak future and nothing but four walls and the thoughts bouncing off your skull.

In Solitary Confinement, coming March 31 in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, Christopher Burney tells how he survived and gained from this experience.
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Wonderful. Laughing my way through it.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Di Benedetto can be seen as a bridge from the magic of García Márquez to the realism of Bolaño and the generation of Latin American writers that succeeded him."

Michael Greenberg on Antonio Di Benedetto. The Suicides has been translated by Esther Allen.

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No Writer Better Understood the Agony of Expectation
Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?
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January 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Finally, Henry Green on my reading table. Thank you @luispanini.bsky.social from the chat on that other place. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Congratulations to all of our finalists and winners! www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/23/n...
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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💫Congratulations Marianne Brooker whose debut, INTERVALS, is on this remarkable shortlist.
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Jan 23
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism are Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso), The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy (University of Chicago), Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop (Verso), Intervals by Marianne Brooker (Fitzcarraldo), and There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House).
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Big News! Nora Lange’s US FOOLS makes the short list for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction:
January 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Proud to have helped select this long list! Great stuff here, people. Check it out.
usrofc.bsky.social Republic of Consciousness Prize (US & Canada) @usrofc.bsky.social · Jan 16
The longlist has been selected! Congratulations to all of the authors, publishers, and translators of these marvelous books.
Text reading as follows: The ten longlisted titles are: Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated by Daniel Levin Becker (Fern) To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen (Bellevue Literary Press) Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter) Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber (Coffee House Press) Tidal Lock by Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Company) Overstaying by Ariane Koch, translated by Damion Searls (Dorothy, a publishing project) The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel (Sandorf Passage) Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton (Biblioasis) Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki, translated by Allison Markin Powell (Transit Books) Lublin by Manya Wilkinson (And Other Stories)
January 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Among my mentions: David Rhodes 2008 novel "Driftless" Milkweed Editions (I can't recommend it enough) and Jon Kalman Stefansson's unforgettable "Heaven and Hell" to be released in February @biblioasis.bsky.social .
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All Sides Weekend: Books
Join host Christopher Purdy and his guests for their first monthly book discussion of the new year.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Of the many novels published this past Tuesday, here are some gems by authors both familiar and new to me that have my attention. thelongestchapter.com/2025/01/16/n...
New books published January 14, 2025
Short stories by Yukio Mishima, a novel by Michael Crummey in paperback, Antonio Di Benedetto's "The Suicides," plus others.
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January 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM